{"id":141761,"date":"2010-01-05T14:29:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T19:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/skype_coming_to_a_couch_near_you.php"},"modified":"2010-01-05T14:29:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T19:29:38","slug":"skype-coming-to-a-couch-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/141761","title":{"rendered":"Skype: Coming to a Couch Near You"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"skype_logo_aug08.png\"Starting this spring, you won’t need to gather the whole family around a 15-inch laptop screen to talk with cousin Joe on the other side of the country. As a matter of fact, you won’t even need to get up off the sofa after the evening news, because Skype is coming to the big screen<\/a> – the big TV screen, that is.<\/p>\n

Skype<\/a> announced today that they have been working with LG<\/a> and Panasonic<\/a> to embed Skype in Internet-connected widescreen HDTVs. <\/p>\n

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Skype claims it is listening to its customers who (gasp!) want to get away from their computers once in a while.<\/p>\n

“We know that Skype users are increasingly interested in conducting video calls away from their computers,” said Skype CEO Josh Silverman in a press release<\/a>. “With Skype, consumers […] will now be able to participate in rich, real-time video conversations from the comfort of their couch.”<\/p>\n

According to Skype, up to 5 million Skype-enabled TVs will be delivered during 2010, but the TV alone will not do it. In addition to a high-speed connection, users will need to purchase a specially designed web cam, which Skype spokesperson Jennifer Caukin told us would run about $150. Caukin said the web cam is designed to pick up audio from a greater distance, so Skype TV users will be able to remain seated instead of huddling around a microphone. It will also provide high-definition video capabilities.<\/p>\n

Skype will be embedded on LG’s NetCast series and Panasonic’s VIERA CAST series of HDTVs.<\/p>\n

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Starting this spring, you won’t need to gather the whole family around a 15-inch laptop screen to talk with cousin Joe on the other side of the country. As a matter of fact, you won’t even need to get up off the sofa after the evening news, because Skype is coming to the big screen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}